DECLAIMER: I don't own Gundam Wing, songs, games, etc. that¡¦s mention in the story Everything that's copyright, I don't own it! I only own the plot. This has the normal pairing: HY/RP, DM/HS, TB/MU, WC/SP. This is my first fanfic so don¡¦t flame me. Thanks a lot for reviewing my story.

Illusion or Reality-Chapter five

"What are you talking about!" Meiran demanded, ¡§We are not in a computer game, we can¡¦t. This is too real, games don¡¦t have things running around, waiting for the right time to kill you."

"There are games like that." Relena stated, remembering the time when Duo played a virtual game in the back of the bus at midnight, cranking the creepy music up real loud, interrupting everyone who were sleeping. How Wufei started arguing¡K fighting with Duo, which in the end caused even more commotion in the end. She smiled at the thought and informed, "But in those games, you control the main character by a keyboard. Even though the player sees what the character in the story sees."

"Maybe you didn¡¦t know but Meiran and Relena¡K"Midii paused to choose the right words to use. "To tell you the truth, I was a spy that worked for OZ. I came into a secret base in Canada as an undercover, because there were some rumours going on about an upraising rebellion group called ¡¥White Fang¡¦. My job was to confirm the rumour. My superiors chose this base because it was the base where the rumours started; I found out that the rumour was accurate. I was ordered to find the evidence there and destroy anything that is a threat to OZ. Right after I finished downloading the information, soldiers burst in from nowhere and electrocuted me with a stun gun, all I remembered they started to circle around me. Before my vision started to fade¡K.."

"That doesn¡¦t proof the point that we are in a computer game." Meiran sneered, not wanting to believe what her best friend was saying. "You fainted, like all of us. There¡¦s no way that you would know if your theories are true or not."

Midii rolled her eyes and smirked, "Meiran. This is not just a computer game; it¡¦s a virtual reality world. You knew me for a long time; I am not those kinds of people that would let anything stop me from getting what I want. Now let me ask you these questions: Would there be a place that would be night time all year around? We had been here more than four years. I haven¡¦t eaten for ages; shouldn¡¦t I be dead by now? The food which you people ate is a trick to convince you that we are in the real world. Do you think that after they discovered that there was a spy in their base, they would actually let the spy live? Besides, the information I downloaded from their mainframe was about this operation."

"Operation?" Relena asked. Now fully alert when she heard the word ¡¥operation¡¦.

"The purpose of this operation is to test to see if what happens in the virtual reality world would actually occur in the real world. And it worked." Midii explained, "We only used about 10% of our brain. To us, our brain is a mystery; no one really knows what the brain is capable of doing. They somehow were able to figure out the mystery and started this operation."

"I wanted to ask¡K" Relena said as she tiled her head to think, "If we died here in this world¡Kwould we be alright in the real world??"

Midii shook her head, " that¡¥s what I was about to tell you. I am afraid that what happened in here would have effects in the real world. For instance, if you are hypnotized and someone poked you in the arm with a pin and claimed that it¡¦s a torch. You would feel the pain and have blisters on your arm. Because your nervous system are the cells that tells your brain what¡¦s going on in your body. So although a real torch didn¡¦t touch you, you would still have blisters because your nervous system believed that you are hurt and needed to get help for the ¡¥wound¡¦."

"Your point is?" Merian asked.

"My point is that if we died in here. We would die in the real world because your brain thought you are dead. All the body function would stop working and then you would really die." Midii explained.

"So you are trying to tell us that the whole purpose of us being here was to die. That we are test projects?" Meiran asked in a confused voice, finally giving in to what Midii were saying. "That we are test materials?"

"Your brain is the key element if we¡K.Never mind, you wouldn¡¦t understand this anyway. Think of this as to test ones limit, of course only the strongest will survive. Just like ¡¥The Natural Selection¡¦ written by Darwin." Midii said confidently. "It¡¦s only a matter of time before we are going to get attacked by ¡¥them¡¦. Trust me; they are going to do everything in order scare the living light out of us. I think that ¡¥they¡¦ are some sort of computer virus. From the stuff I downloaded, the information read that ¡¥they¡¦ looked like grasshoppers but except that they are 1000X bigger and faster. I think that they are called Osteosis."

"So the monsters that ripped people into pieces are only grasshoppers?!" Relena exclaimed, handing the map back to Midii. "Why didn¡¦t you inform us earlier?"

"Would you believe that the thing that was freaking you all people out are just grasshoppers!" Midii snapped, shoving the map into her knapsack. "You guys would think that I am a lunatic or something. At first, I didn¡¦t believe that either but¡K."

Boom!

"Come on." Midii urged, as she pulled her knapsack to her shoulder and grabbed her sniper rifle (used for long distance + assassinations) and walked out the door. "We better get out of here before they do arrive. Or else we¡¦ll have no chance to escape." She said, as she walked toward the base.

"Where are we going?" Relena asked.

Midii sighed, "Can you stop asking questions, I haven¡¦t got all day to explain. If I explain right now, they¡¦ll hear us. Besides we got to warn the others¡K.." she froze when she saw that the people were lying on the floor. Their bodies were ripped apart, coloured by crimson fluid- blood. The smell of rotting flesh¡K..Everyone¡K..

Relena covered her mouth the instance she saw the bodies and felt like she¡¦s going to faint. Meiran looked away from the bodies with disgust, not wanting to take another look at those corpses. Midii walked toward a little girl, who was holding a hand-sew teddy bear and was lying on top of an adult body. The teddy bear which used to be brown changed to dark purple because of the girl¡¦s blood¡K.Midii used her right hand and closed the little girl¡¦s opened green eyes.

"Oh no¡KEve¡K"Meiran moaned.¡¨How can those¡K "Osteosis¡¦ wipe them out without anyone of their allies killed¡K"

Relena looked at Midii and saw all the feelings whirled around her eyes: loneliness, hatred, angry, and others that she can¡¦t tell.

"They weren¡¦t ready." was Midii¡¦s only reply.

Midii looked at Eve for a moment longer before turned to Meiran and Relena. Her eyes were as hard as rock like before. She was about to say something when¡K.

Boom!!

As the sound get closer, the ground began to shake violently. Midii waved her right hand to signal the others to follow her. She led them up the metal stairs on the left of the base. "We need to get to C5, no matter what. It¡¦s our only chance." She said as she ran up the stairs.

Relena, who wasn¡¦t used to running because she was used to be in her office doing paperwork, was the last one up the stairs. By the time she got to the second floor. Meiran and Midii were already standing a few meters away from her, waiting. She quickly took a deep breath and headed toward them as fast as she can. Without a warning, the gate from the top was starting to close up. Midii quickly stuck her rifle between the gate and the floor, but the rifle snapped almost instantly into halves by the heavy weight of the gate. Relena rushed toward the gate. Unfortunately the gate closed long before she made it. Now Relena was stuck in the base, with Meiran and Midii on the other side.

"Meiran, connect to the mainframe and open the gate." Midii ordered.

"I can¡¦t!" Meiran exclaimed as she frantically type on the computer keyboard beside the gate. "It¡¦s going to take me at least ten minutes to even by-pass the security."

"Then can you tap onto the communicator?" Midii asked, looking through the small rectangular bullet-prove window which was located in the center of the gate. Without words, she observed for any moment behind Relena.

"Yea, I think I can¡K" Meiran answered as she searched through the computer, clicking the ¡¥enter¡¦ button. "Got it."

"Relena," Midii ordered. "Look at the left wall beside you, there should be a moveable tile with an "X" at its right corner. Pull it out and slid down the tunnel from there, meet us at C5. If you didn¡¦t see us after five minutes, assume that we are died and get out of there no matter what."

Relena gave Midii a ¡¥you-are-not-going-to-die¡¦ look. With determination, she started to search for that loose tile.

"I don¡¦t like this," Meiran stated, "it¡¦s too quiet, way to quiet."

"I know¡K"Midii nodded.

"Oh god!" she whispered.

"What!" Meiran exclaimed.

Midii froze and stared through the window with a blank face pointing at something behind the metal staircase.

Meiran glimpsed at the stair. Nothings wrong why is Midii so¡K then she saw it.

"Oh no¡K"Meiran murmured.

"Found it!" Relena said excitedly, as if she was a child that just received a candy from her parents. She quickly pulled the tile out. Turning on the high-power light from her gun, she peeked in. It was just another metal tunnel, like the one before. But this one goes down, like a slide. I guess I have to prepare for another fall¡KRelena thought sarcastically.

"Relena get in there!" Midii screamed, half-yelling and half-ordering.

Her tone of voice was so strong that Relena didn¡¦t even thought of objecting. She did as what she was told as quick as possible. Strapping her rifle diagonally on her back she climbed in. She sat down and pushed herself down the tunnel. Suddenly, something grabbed her high-power flashlight (it was attached to the front of the rifle¡¦s barrel) and was trying to yank her out of tunnel.

"What~" Relena uttered in surprised, as she turned around. Then she saw ¡¥it¡¦. It did look like a grasshopper with dark greenish-brown rough skin. She tried to get the rifle¡¦s strap off from her but failed, the gun¡¦s strap that was around her waist was starting to slide from her waist and up her ribs. Now the strap was at her armpit. If it keeps on sliding, I am going to get strangled by the strap! Relena thought as she tried to think of a solution. In this position, I can¡¦t even use the rifle!

"What are we gonna do!" Meiran exclaimed, totally panicked.

"Meiran, stay calm there is only one of them. Freaking yourself out is not a solution to this. She¡¦ll be alright, because they still don¡¦t want her to die yet." Midii reassured her.

Snapped!

Relena screamed as she slid down the tunnel. She flew out of the tunnel and she landed on the metal floor below. Relena observed her surroundings and saw that her flashlight was roughly ripped off from the rifle. Great Relena thought, how am I going to get out of here without light. How in the world am I suppose to know where C5 is? I didn¡¦t even look at the map¡K She changed her mind and started running as soon as she heard a loud, thunderous monster cry from the top. Anywhere is better than here.

After the flashlight had broken off, the Osteosis threw the flashlight away angrily. Midii quickly dragged Meiran after her, down the metal hallway.

The only thing heard was the loud, monstrous cry.

*End Flashback*

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